The coronavirus pandemic has affected educational systems around the world, leading most universities to implement distance education. The aim of this research is to investigate the application of online education at the School of Engineering in Nea Michaniona, Thessaloniki during the covid-19 pandemic, according to the views of its educators. The survey was conducted at the end of the spring semester of 2020. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was used with the tool of a questionnaire with closed and open-ended questions to 32 educators. The findings of the study revealed the problems faced by educators, the modifications they had to make, their view on the quality of the teaching they provided, the limitations of a technical school and their future intentions regarding distance learning.
Abstract:Times of economic crisis bring changes. Low funding and sequential problems provide new challenges for school community in order to move forward. This paper demonstrates a completely volunteer program for a Greek, public secondary school, involving the whole school community, school staff, students, parents and citizens, and aiming to shape the school culture into volunteer commitment during hard times. Our research is based on secondary data that were retrieved by up to date sources that aimed to discuss the volunteerism and its impact on modern educational leadership. We discuss the case study of Western Australian schools that used a volunteerism program and we discuss how this can be implemented at Greek schools. Working throughout international literature we found a complete volunteer program for organizations and we adapted it for Greek public secondary school. In order this project to be achievable we suggest a transformational leader who is charismatic and visionary to be the head teacher of the school. On reimaging schooling, our assumption was that if a public school could shape a volunteer commitment by all school members then the consequences of economic crisis will be more easily hand able.
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